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john quincy adams and louisa would inherit this home from john adams. john quincy thought about selling it, but then decided that it was important to the family story to hold onto the house for future generations. susan: you can visit there today. where the papers? amanda: they are at the massachusetts historical society in boston. they used to be at the old house would distill my very, but they were transferred to the historical society for safekeeping. susan: a question on facebook from genie webber. i have read excerpts from her autobiography, it said the massachusetts historical society was going to publish the papers. is that true? amanda: yes. a two volume of her autobiographical writings, which includes a record of my life adventures of a nobody, and her narrative of a journey from st. petersburg, france, and all her diaries have already been published in a scholarly edition. next year, a trade edition of these writings will be available. it has a forward by former first lady, laura bush. susan: we must talk a little about st. petersburg and her
john quincy adams and louisa would inherit this home from john adams. john quincy thought about selling it, but then decided that it was important to the family story to hold onto the house for future generations. susan: you can visit there today. where the papers? amanda: they are at the massachusetts historical society in boston. they used to be at the old house would distill my very, but they were transferred to the historical society for safekeeping. susan: a question on facebook from genie...
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john quincy adams did not think too highly of mr. hughes. he said, houston leave the whole science of diplomacy consists in giving -- hughes believes the whole science of diplomacy consists in giving dinners. who are the british sending? dr. william adams, admiralty lawyer. he's on the team because americans are known to favor legalistic arguments. lord gambier will look out for the british naval interests. they're not going to budge on this issue. the reason they can't is the minute they give up the idea of impressment, what any british sailor does not want to be part of the navy, what are they going to do? desert to an american flag vessel. if you're great britain, if you give up impressment, you just shot yourself in the foot. henry goulburn, is there to look after canada. still some very smart people. any questions so far? ok. what are the main issues they're going to tackle? we know the seizure of ships that was done. what is the number one issue? impressment. the u.s. will draw back immediately when negotiations began in august. in aug
john quincy adams did not think too highly of mr. hughes. he said, houston leave the whole science of diplomacy consists in giving -- hughes believes the whole science of diplomacy consists in giving dinners. who are the british sending? dr. william adams, admiralty lawyer. he's on the team because americans are known to favor legalistic arguments. lord gambier will look out for the british naval interests. they're not going to budge on this issue. the reason they can't is the minute they give...
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john quincy adams and louisa would inherit this home from john adams. john quincy thought about selling this house but after discussion and thought with louisa catherine, they decided that this was important to the family story to hold on to this house for future generations. swain: and you can visit there today, is that correct? mathews: yes, wonderful for -- swain: and where are the papers? mathews: the papers are at the massachusetts historical society in boston. they used to be at the old house at the stone library but they were transferred to the historical society for safekeeping. swain: i have a question on facebook from jeannie stunard weber -- "i have read excerpts from louisa adams autobiography of a nobody and heard rumors that the massachusetts historical society was going to publish this. is this true?" mathews: yes, a two-volume set of her autobiographical writings which includes "record of my life", "adventures of a nobody" and her narrative of a journey from saint petersburg to france, and all her diaries have already been published in a
john quincy adams and louisa would inherit this home from john adams. john quincy thought about selling this house but after discussion and thought with louisa catherine, they decided that this was important to the family story to hold on to this house for future generations. swain: and you can visit there today, is that correct? mathews: yes, wonderful for -- swain: and where are the papers? mathews: the papers are at the massachusetts historical society in boston. they used to be at the old...
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anthony hopkins did a great job playing john quincy adams. and i commend that movie to anyone who cares to see it. i don't think as many people saw it as have seen mcconaughey's other movies. he didn't take off his shirt in this one. but the basic story can be found in the likes of history books. unfortunately not many that you can find in any school in america these days. but it was a very important case. in establishing propriety in america. but there was a group of africans who were captured by other africans, taken to the coast of africa, sold into slavery, put in chains, sailed across the sea to the atlantic, to the caribbean. there this particular group of africans were put on a spanish ship called the amistad. and after they sailed, the africans were able to get free, take over control of the ship they didn't know anything about sailing a ship like that. and ended up landing in the united states. on the united states coast. immediately the spanish -- spaniards began proclaiming that the africans were their property, they were slaves th
anthony hopkins did a great job playing john quincy adams. and i commend that movie to anyone who cares to see it. i don't think as many people saw it as have seen mcconaughey's other movies. he didn't take off his shirt in this one. but the basic story can be found in the likes of history books. unfortunately not many that you can find in any school in america these days. but it was a very important case. in establishing propriety in america. but there was a group of africans who were captured...
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i went all over amazon and looked in libraries for a history of what john quincy adams called the critical decade the 1780's. that was the make or break decade of the 1980's. would we win the revolutionary war, could we form a government? could we strengthen the government when it needed to be strengthened? all of that had to happen and did happen in the 1780's. so i e-mailed 20 historians most of them are phd's i e-mailed a historian friend of mine whose book last year was nine did -- nominated for a pulitzer prize in history. most of them e-mailed back and were embarrassed saying, i should know of one, but i don't. so the conclusion was, if prime historians say i cannot identify the history of the 1780's, there isn't one, and there isn't. if any of you would like to write a history of the 1780's you have my complete encouragement, because this is a huge gap in the american record. there are good history's of people who lived in those 1780's the constitutional convention but nothing on the critical decade. this is the book for sale back there, hard covers are 30 and paperbacks are 20. i w
i went all over amazon and looked in libraries for a history of what john quincy adams called the critical decade the 1780's. that was the make or break decade of the 1980's. would we win the revolutionary war, could we form a government? could we strengthen the government when it needed to be strengthened? all of that had to happen and did happen in the 1780's. so i e-mailed 20 historians most of them are phd's i e-mailed a historian friend of mine whose book last year was nine did --...
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i went all over amazon and looked in libraries for a history of what john quincy adams called the critical decade the 1780's. , that was the make or break decade of the 1980's. would we win the revolutionary war, could we form a government? could we strengthen the government when it needed to be strengthened? all of that had to happen and did happen in the 1780's. so i e-mailed 20 historians, most of them are phd's i e-mailed a historian friend of mine whose book last year was nominated for a pulitzer prize in history. most of them e-mailed back and were embarrassed saying, i should know of one, but i don't. so the conclusion was, if prime historians say i cannot identify the history of the 1780's, there isn't one, and there isn't. if any of you would like to write a history of the 1780's you have my complete encouragement, because this is a huge gap in the american record. there are good history's of people who lived in those 1780's , biographies of events, the constitutional convention but nothing on the critical decade. this is the book for sale back there, hard covers are 30 and paperb
i went all over amazon and looked in libraries for a history of what john quincy adams called the critical decade the 1780's. , that was the make or break decade of the 1980's. would we win the revolutionary war, could we form a government? could we strengthen the government when it needed to be strengthened? all of that had to happen and did happen in the 1780's. so i e-mailed 20 historians, most of them are phd's i e-mailed a historian friend of mine whose book last year was nominated for a...
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john quincy adams, who hated james taylor who referred to him as his accident rather than his excellency, by the time fillmore becomes president, he will be inaugurated, he will be sworn in, he is now the president of the united states. fillmore, very graciously asks margaret taylor to stay on in the white house as long as she wishes. she moves out two days later. she has had enough. >> we have to learn more about new york we will do that by video. here is the millard fillmore home that you are going to see now on videotape. >> we are in this most charming little home. small as it is, it belonged to millard and abigail fillmore. they were both teachers. they both had this desire and love of reading. abigail was brought up in a family with many books. her father was a baptist preacher and he loved to read. she was surrounded by books her whole lifetime. when she moved into this house with millard fillmore, she continued that. they had their own personal library. she wanted to let young people learn extensively about the world as it is. this room is the focus of the entire house. history i
john quincy adams, who hated james taylor who referred to him as his accident rather than his excellency, by the time fillmore becomes president, he will be inaugurated, he will be sworn in, he is now the president of the united states. fillmore, very graciously asks margaret taylor to stay on in the white house as long as she wishes. she moves out two days later. she has had enough. >> we have to learn more about new york we will do that by video. here is the millard fillmore home that...
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john quincy adams is one of the negotiators, absolutely not. absolutely not. they will not relent, and they tell the british no, we'll sign nothing like that. the british finally say, all right, we won't have an indian state, but they add a very important article in the treaty of ghent. it's called article ix. and in this article they say there's going to be peace forever between the americans, between the indians and between us the british. and then they put a year in. we are going to go back to 1811. we are going to go back to that year, and we're going the act as if we never were at war, we were always at peace. and when henry clay saw the document he exploded. he's one of the negotiators, and he says they mean to take us back before tip a canoe, back before tecumseh rose up and back before this war started, and john quincy adams was just as mad. and they told president madison, don't sign this awful treaty. it's a testament to what the indians wanted, that separate country. and james madison who you'll be hearing about today if you say senate james michene
john quincy adams is one of the negotiators, absolutely not. absolutely not. they will not relent, and they tell the british no, we'll sign nothing like that. the british finally say, all right, we won't have an indian state, but they add a very important article in the treaty of ghent. it's called article ix. and in this article they say there's going to be peace forever between the americans, between the indians and between us the british. and then they put a year in. we are going to go back...